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English Subtitles
Japanese and English Audio
Encoded by Geagle
Upscaled to 720p with filters, for sharper look in fullscreen mode.
Source: UK DVD
This time the subtitles are not muxed, so you have to use the .Srt file. If this is a problem for anyone please let me know and I'll upload a fix.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/

From Wikipedia:

Plot

Taking place toward the end of World War II in Japan, Grave of the Fireflies is the tale of the relationship between two orphaned children, preteen Seita and his young sister Setsuko. The children lose their mother in the firebombing of Kobe, and their father in service to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and as a result are forced to try to survive amidst widespread famine and the callous indifference of their countrymen, some of whom are their own extended family members.

The movie begins in Sannomiya Station and portrays Seita, in rags and dying of starvation. A janitor comes and digs through his things, and finds a candy tin containing ashes and bones. He throws it out, and from it springs the spirit of Setsuko, Seita, and a cloud of fireflies. The spirit of Seita continues to narrate their story, which is, in effect, an extended flashback to Japan at the end of World War II, during the Kobe firebombings. Setsuko and Seita, the two siblings, are left to secure the house and their belongings, allowing their mother, who suffers from a heart complaint, to move to a bomb shelter. They are caught off-guard by firebombs dropped in their neighborhood, and although they survive unscathed, their mother is caught in the air raid and dies from her burns. Having nowhere else to go, Setsuko and Seita move in with a distant aunt, who allows them to stay but convinces Seita to sell his mother's kimonos for rice. While living with their relatives, Seita goes out to retrieve leftover supplies he had buried in the ground before the bombing. He gives all of it to his aunt, but hides a small tin of fruit drops, which becomes a recurrent icon throughout the film. Their aunt continues to feed and shelter them but grows increasingly cold and resentful, and openly remarks on how they do nothing to help around the house and have outstayed their welcome.

Seita and Setsuko finally decide to leave and move into an abandoned bomb shelter. What begins as an optimistic new lease on life gradually grows grim as they run out of rice, and Seita is forced to steal crops from local farmers and loot homes during air raids. When he is caught stealing sugar, he realizes his desperation and takes an increasingly ill Setsuko to a doctor, who informs him that Setsuko is suffering from malnourishment and offers no advice. In a panic, Seita withdraws all the money remaining in their mother's bank account, but while at the bank, he learns of Japan's surrender to the Allies and the probable death of his father. He returns to the shelter with large quantities of food, only to find a weakened Setsuko hallucinating, sucking marbles like fruit drops. Setsuko offers Seita 'rice balls' which are really only dirt clods. Seita gives her a bite of watermelon and hurries to cook some food, but she "doesn't wake up." Seita uses supplies donated to him by a farmer to cremate her, and puts some of her ashes in the fruit tin which he carries with his father's photograph until his death in the train station on September 21, 1945.

At the end of the film, the spirits of Seita and Setsuko are seen, no longer raggedy and etiolated but healthy and well-dressed, sitting side by side as they look down on the modern-day city of Kobe.

Story origin and interpretations

The story is based on the semi-autobiographic novel by the same name, whose author, Nosaka, lost his sister due to malnutrition in 1945 wartime Japan. He blamed himself for her death and wrote the story so as to make amends to her and help him accept the tragedy.

Due to the graphic and truly emotional depiction of the negative consequences of war on society and the individuals therein, some critics have viewed Grave of the Fireflies as an anti-war film. The film does provide an insight into Japanese culture by focusing its attention almost entirely on the personal tragedies that wars give rise to, rather than seeking to glamorize it as a heroic struggle between competing ideologies